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WorksheetsPath to Totalitarianism or How I Became a Dictator by A. Hitler
Total questions: 15
Worksheet time: 9mins
The law passed in 1933 that enabled Adolf Hitler to assume dictatorial powers. The act allowed Hitler’s Reich Cabinet / government to issue decrees independently of the Reichstag and the presidency allowing the Reich government to issue laws without the consent of Germany's parliament and sometimes ignoring the Constitution.
The Emergency Decree
The Enabling Act
Reichstag Fire Decree
Euthanasia Decree
Germany had to pay £6,600 million to the Allies to cover the damage it had caused during the war. This was a form of compensation known as
Blackmail
Remuneration
Compensation
Reparations
The German people felt the government had let them down badly, so many Germans referred to it as
The Stab in the Back
The Great Swindle
Mein Kampf
Diktat
Who were the 'November Criminals'?
The Weimar government
The politicians who signed the Treaty of Versailles
The opponents of Hitler killed in The Night of the Long Knives
Those responsible for the 'Stab in the Back'
Which best suites this definition: dissemination of information—facts, arguments, rumours, half-truths, or lies—to influence public opinion.
Disinformation
Misinformation
Propaganda
Brainwashing
Hitler and the Nazis used the Treaty of Versailles to terrorize and as propaganda.
True
False
A form of government that theoretically permits no individual freedom and that seeks to subordinate all aspects of individual life to the authority of the state.
Democratic
Communist
Totalitarian
Egalitarian
Originally founded as personal bodyguards for Hitler and became the elite corps of the NSDAP.
Gestapo
Storm Troopers
SA / Sturmabteilung
SS /Schutzstaffel
What is the NSDAP?
A far right political party
National Socialist German Workers' Party
The Nazi Party
None of these
While in jail Hitler wrote...
Mein Kampf
In his diary
On the prison walls
Meine schreckliche Geschichte
Which words, when filled in the blanks, is correct about the Night of the Long Knives?
It was a purge of Nazi leaders by Adolf Hitler. Fearing that the paramilitary _____ had become too _____ , Hitler ordered his elite _____ guards to murder the organization’s leaders, including ______.
SA , weak , SS , Ernst Röhm
SS , militaristic , SA , Heinrich Himmler
SS , complacent , SA , Heinrich Himmler
SA , powerful , SS , Ernst Röhm
The Enabling Act from March 1933 substantially altered Germany’s political system by changing the way laws could be enacted.
True
False
Which laws were significant because they all but created an authoritarian state with Hitler as dictator?
The Reichstag Fire Decree (Emergency Decree)
The Press Censorship Law
The Reich Citizenship Law
The Enabling Act
Who was blamed for the burning of the Reichstag?
Communists
Jews
The Weimar Republic
Foreigners
The Nazis created a terror-state through which means?
Brutality
Intimidation
Fear
Legal Means
